LOOP VARIABLES AND GAUGE-INVARIANT INTERACTIONS — I

DOI10.1142/S0217751X00001907zbMATH Open1002.81041arXivhep-th/0002139OpenAlexW3093073634MaRDI QIDQ4528650FDOQ4528650

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Publication date: 7 January 2003

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We describe a method of writing down interacting equations for all the modes of the bosonic open string. It is a generalization of the loop variable approach that was used earlier for the free, and lowest order interacting cases. The generalization involves, as before, the introduction of a parameter to label the different strings involved in an interaction. The interacting string has thus becomes a ``band of finite width. The interaction equations expressed in terms of loop variables, has a simple invariance that is exact even off shell. A consistent definition of space-time fields requires the fields to be functions of all the infinite number of gauge coordinates (in addition to space time coordinates). The theory is formulated in one higher dimension, where the modes appear massless. The dimensional reduction that is needed to make contact with string theory (which has been discussed earlier for the free case) is not discussed here.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0002139

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zbMATH Keywords

dimensional reductionbosonic open stringband of finite width

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

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